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Show - - --. .........-., j HOME TRIFLES OF TO-DAY'-.. AND THIRTY YEARS.'' AGO t ... . I Within the last thirty years a generation a hundred and one little household necessities that mama used to make are now on the counters of the department stores for sale at prices that stagger humanity. When the dear old lady of 1873 wanted a wash rag she would make it by hemming a square foot of the old man's discarded undershirt. She can " " buy a wash rag now for three cents. , When she wanted a floor rag she would rip open a flour bag or a burlap bur-lap sack. She can buy a floor rag now for seven cents. When she wanted something to shine the silver with she would take an old stocking, an old sock or the sleeve of a worn-out woolen garment, or possibly: the leg end of the old man's drawers. To-day she can buy a polishing cloth of some patented material as good as chamois skin for five cents. ! Mama used to make iron holders out ' of quilting any old piece left over or -worn out. Now she can buy all she wants made of asbestos for five cents each. 'Dust rags or cloths? Why, bless you, what did she do- with the old night shirts, petticoats and chemises? They are for sale now at ten cents. She used to cover the ironing board with a ripped bed sheet, but to-day she buys a cover in the store for a quarter. Dish rags were made of anything lying around an old towl, a shirt, coat lining, pillow case or sleeve. In the department store to-day, five cents. Pot rag? A piece of tattered table cloth was none too good. To-day in the stores, five cents. For polishing the stove she used a rag dipped in the.blacking; now she buys a sheepskin glove, with the wool outside, for twenty cents. .'She would make window shades out of bolts of linen and take them down once every six months to wash them. Now she buys shades ready made that never can be washed and never will be. |